two Glee recs
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rmOn Centrifugal Living
I can't really describe for you how hard I found this story to read. I didn't, at first, realize this was going to be that sort of story, which is part of the art of it. But it, more than most things in the fandom, gets how the queer thing and the bullying thing underlies everything whether you want to be that poster-child kid or not. This hit me in a pretty terrible personal place that I didn't realize I could (still) be hit in in quite that way.
A Long Road Ahead
While Glee has acknowledged in passing that Blaine's not actually just some white dude, and I've long wanted someone to do some fic that addresses the degree to which I feel like Blaine is performing white/WASP identity at Dalton (the hair, the hair!), I never anticipated someone would grab at that idea like this. But they did! It's actually about Blaine's mom, and it's amazing. This story is, like the one above, also difficult.
I can't really describe for you how hard I found this story to read. I didn't, at first, realize this was going to be that sort of story, which is part of the art of it. But it, more than most things in the fandom, gets how the queer thing and the bullying thing underlies everything whether you want to be that poster-child kid or not. This hit me in a pretty terrible personal place that I didn't realize I could (still) be hit in in quite that way.
A Long Road Ahead
While Glee has acknowledged in passing that Blaine's not actually just some white dude, and I've long wanted someone to do some fic that addresses the degree to which I feel like Blaine is performing white/WASP identity at Dalton (the hair, the hair!), I never anticipated someone would grab at that idea like this. But they did! It's actually about Blaine's mom, and it's amazing. This story is, like the one above, also difficult.
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Date: 2011-05-31 10:16 pm (UTC)I forget which, but there is a fic that addresses Blaine's non-whiteness quite hilariously -- where Kurt actually asks (by sms?) him if he's Asian. Which is bizarre and honest all at the same time.
My wife hates Blaine's hair. With a passion that is only explained by the fact that hair is her *job*.
But it's certainly something that almost every Klaine fic I've read recently (and I'm on hols at the moment, so there are quite a few) has addressed in some way. More recently, it seems to be with Kurt deciding that -- now that they're together -- he's going to fix Blaine's helmet hair.
"A Long Road Ahead" is actually quite lovely, and sad. As an immigrant (even without the ethnicity issues), I felt a lot of it quite keenly. I'm always so disappointed when I feel like I've lost a cultural marker and have in some way assimilated more. It's unavoidable, but still feels like loss. I can only imagine the feelings I'd have if I had a child and that child was growing up like here, and not like there.